The knee refuses to settle down even after laying off it for the last 10 days. At this point we're tempted to say fuckall, let's hit the gym anyway. Very often we've found that running with a sore foot clears out the the gout. Maybe just lifting today. It's time to get back to work. We'll see.
What Will's Watching: Whiskey Tango Foxtrot. Tina Fey (who looks like and has the same mannerisms as our stupid older sister) plays Kim Baker, a newsroom writer elevated to Afghan television correspondent. Determined to get the story, Baker learns the ins and outs of war reporting. In the process she becomes an old Afghan hand addicted to the job. 'No, this is home,' she tells Martin Freeman, who manages not to make one think of hobbits in his role as a combat photog. Billy Bob Thornton is great as a tough and cynical Marine colonel. Farcical without being snarky. 3/4
For most of the last 30 years General Powell was a figure above the fray, a national hero. This blog believes Colin Powell was a good general and generally a good man. He isn't joining Meghan McCain's dad down there, we'll say that.
So here's the question, had Powell become president, how would he have done? If we were gonna template, we'd choose Bush the Elder for a theoretical Powell Presidency. Powell would have make conservatives happy on some issues and infuriate them on others; for every Thomas a Souter. He'd try to work with the Dems but get knifed in the gut for his trouble. We just don't think Powell had the necessary political pit fighting skills to get much done. Frankly, this blog believes the Dems would have rolled him. But what kind of wartime president would Powell have made? Now there's an interesting idea.
Via Powerline a long article by NRO's Dan McLaughlin about the Dems demographics and election prospects. Nut graph, as the J-School losers would say, the Dems have a longterm demographic problem, especially with Hispanic voters. McLaughlin goes on at some length about Ruy Teixeira's Emerging Democratic Majority thesis from 20 years ago, which argued a coalition of rich whites and minorities would rein.
Teixeira disavows the thesis now*, as polls show working class Hispanics moving toward the GOP. Why it's almost as if Hispanic Americans are a (what's the word?) diverse group of people with varying interests. Puerto Ricans are different from Cubans who are different from Mexicans, who are different from Guatemalans. Sorta like there's a big difference between Krauts and Eye-talians, no? Sub-headline: Latin world, not a monolith.
If you're a second generation American whose dad fled Venezuela, you might think the US is a pretty nice place. And hell, maybe if your a Tejano you resent Latin Americans hopping the border illegally. You may be Mexican, but fuck all, you're also a businessman who doesn't like the supply chain crisis.
Democrats, Marxists at heart, should understand that race isn't the determining factor in politics. Class is.
If you have three kids, think a great Saturday is working on your truck with the boy while mom and the twins make lunch before the Arkansas/Texas Tech game and plan to attend Church the next day, this blog knows how you're voting. And if your a barren 35ish career woman who works at a Big-5 publisher who claims she likes sensitive men but secretly fantasizes about Don Draper [I know....-Ed] and spends her Sundays at the indy coffee shop reading the NYT's arts and culture section while wondering if it's too late to go to law school, we know how you're voting too.
Class not race. Why don't Dems get that?
*There's tons of useful insights in the original work, regardless.
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